{"id":359,"date":"2018-03-08T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/?page_id=359"},"modified":"2025-06-03T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T21:03:24","slug":"individual-counseling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/therapy\/individual-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Individual Counseling<\/h3>\n<p>Individual counseling can be helpful in dealing with many life problems, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>understanding and managing the symptoms of depression and anxiety<\/li>\n<li>healing from abuse and trauma<\/li>\n<li>coping with grief and loss<\/li>\n<li>moving through life transitions<\/li>\n<li>strengthening relationships<\/li>\n<li>exploring workplace and career concerns<\/li>\n<li>dealing with addiction and dependency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clients can meet with their therapists in-person or virtually. Some clients choose a hybrid of both options.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2669 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Individual-Therapy-Graphic-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Individual-Therapy-Graphic-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Individual-Therapy-Graphic-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Individual-Therapy-Graphic-1024x740.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Individual-Therapy-Graphic.png 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Getting Started<\/h3>\n<p>Visit the<span style=\"color: #7ea115;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #7ea115;\" href=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/therapy\/find-a-therapist\/\">Find a Therapist<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>page. From this list of Samaritan&#8217;s clinical staff, you can click on a therapist&#8217;s name to go to his\/her personal page for information about their experience, training, specialties, location and availability.<br \/>\nLearn about our <span style=\"color: #7ea115;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #7ea115;\" href=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/about-us\/locations\/\">Locations<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>of our counseling offices, including the names of therapists who work at that location.<br \/>\nTo make an appointment or contact a therapist, use their contact information or call (206) 527-2266.<\/p>\n<h3>New Client Intake Forms<\/h3>\n<p>After arranging an appointment with a therapist, you may complete the new client intake forms in one of two ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When you come to your first appointment (come a few minutes early to allow time for that)<\/li>\n<li>By printing the forms ahead of time to bring with you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2681\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Virtual-Therapy-Graphic-1-300x166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Virtual-Therapy-Graphic-1-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Virtual-Therapy-Graphic-1-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Virtual-Therapy-Graphic-1.png 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you want to complete the forms in advance, download the forms from the individual profile of your therapist on our website<span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual Counseling Individual counseling can be helpful in dealing with many life problems, including: understanding and managing the symptoms of depression and anxiety healing from abuse and trauma coping with grief and loss moving through life transitions strengthening relationships exploring workplace and career concerns dealing with addiction and dependency Clients can meet with their therapists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2719,"parent":113,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-359","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9HFgk-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/359\/revisions\/3063"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}